Abigail Levine is a choreographer and writer working in New York City. Rooted in dance, but moving across media—performance, text, drawing, sound—Abigail’s work explores the poetics of our bodily work, how we record and value it. Her multi-year commissions, Redactions (Chocolate Factory Theater, 2022) and Restagings (Fridman Gallery, 2017-2019) have been supported by fellowships and residencies at MacDowell, Bogliasco Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Los Angeles Performance Practice, Target Margin Theater, and Center for Performance Research, and project and emergency grants from Foundation for Contemporary Arts and New Music USA. Abigail collaborated with pioneering electronics composer Alvin Lucier on a staging of his Orpheus Variations (ISSUE Project Room, 2020) and performed with both Marina Abramovic and Yvonne Rainer in their retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art. Abigail’s critical writing has been published in Documents in Contemporary Art, Art21, Women & Performance, Performance Art Journal (PAJ), Movement Research Performance Journal, and her creative works in Interim Poetics, Peripheries, La Vague Journal, and Imagined Theatres. Abigail has taught in the Dance Departments at Wesleyan University and Florida State University and is currently on faculty at The New School and University of Texas at Austin’s UTNY program. Her latest work, Words Begin as Sound, will premier in 2025.
